LIFE IN KIBERA SLUMS

Living a complete life without toilets, good housing, stinking sewages and general poor sanitation except liquor. Every day is just another day in kibera slums, you wake up in the morning and what starts your day is feaces and sewage flowing at your door step instead of breakfast. The best home you can own in the slum is shanty: made of iron or muddy wall and iron or grass roof with no floor. No toilets in the slum instead you help yourself in a nylon paper which you discard later at night in the dark since there is no power in the slums and nobody is looking at you. You only eat one meal in a day if you can afford by chance or no meal at all. The slum dwellers live on less than half a dollar a day and still survive. Everyone in the neighborhood is the same hence nobody can empower the other. The dwellers favorite activity is liquor drinking which cost 10/= or even 5/= They get completely drunk and sleep the whole day thinking that their problems are sorted out that day as they console themselves that tomorrow will take care of itself. The kibera residents prefer doing their activities at night than daytime because they involve criminal activities like waiting for the late birds and mug them off their phones and valuables that they sell the next day and make money for drinking cheap liqoiur. In the slum, comes a casual laborer who has to walk about 20-25km every morning in search of job for the day which is not guaranteed at all thereafter walks back to the slum in t6he evening either with something to spend or nothing at all. Life is really hard for them because they got families to feed and kids to educate and without forgetting they need their daily liquor. Their wives and single women in the slum sit outside middle class estates gate to wait for someone to hire them for household task that day for little pay as 100/= and it’s not definite. The last class of kibera slum dwellers have permanent jobs e.g. watchmen of monthly pay as little as 2000/= These people are forced to live at the slums since that is the only living standards that they can afford but still pay through their nose. Don’t forget this class too has to drink liquor everyday to avoid thinking so much. It’s sarcastic that the people who don’t have enough for themselves are the people who spent the little they earn on liquor. Bye, Eve Africa